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Latitude: 55.9351 / 55°56'6"N
Longitude: -3.1677 / 3°10'3"W
OS Eastings: 327146
OS Northings: 671955
OS Grid: NT271719
Mapcode National: GBR 8TM.VX
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.92SW
Plus Code: 9C7RWRPJ+2W
Entry Name: 2 Priestfield Road, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 2-4 (Even Nos) Priestfield Road
Listing Date: 29 March 1996
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 389566
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB43167
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200389566
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1880. 2-storey, 4-bay pair of symmetrical houses. Coursed cream sandstone coursed rubble with ashlar dressings to principal elevation; squared and snecked rubble to sides and rear. Base course; long and short ashlar quoins; shouldered architraves to 1st floor single windows; cill course to 1st floor windows between canted bays; deep cornice; mutual skewputt; chip-carved decorative details.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: doorways to 2 central bays; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; bracketed doorpieces with intricately carved floral design to pediments; segmental-arched single windows above with bracketed cills (scroll motif to architrave of right window at cill). Full-height, 3-light canted windows breaking eaves to outer bays; decorative carved frieze above 1st floor; cast-iron finials to roof. Box dormer to No 2.
E AND W ELEVATIONS: central, round-arched stair windows to 1st floor; single windows to bays to S. Canted dormers to N.
S ELEVATION: single storey extensions to outer bays; regular fenestration above and to central bays.
Plate glass, timber, sash and case windows. Grey slate platform roof; coped and rendered wallhead stacks; coped ridge stack.
These houses are very similar in character and detail to those at Nos 1 and 3 Marchhall Road and Nos 6-12 (even nos) Priestfield Road (see separate list entries).
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